Am Sun, 11 Sep 2016 18:09:56 +0200
schrieb Svante Signell <svante.signell@???>:

> On Sun, 2016-09-11 at 17:44 +0200, emninger@??? wrote:
> > I was away from the keyboard a very long time (had to work
> > outside/outdoor for a life), so very likely i missed a lot. Sorry in
> > anticipation if i'm doubling something:
> >
> > One system is/was running devuan ascii quite nicely but when i came
> > back i did an 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade' and i
> > realize(d), that openrc (which i was used to use) was removed. When
> > i try to reinstall openrc, i see that nearly the complete system
> > would be
> > removed 
>
> Which version did you have/are you trying to install?
> From the 0.21-2 debian changelog:
> openrc (0.21-2) unstable; urgency=medium
>
>   * Move Recommends init-system-helpers to Pre-Depend (Closes:
> 829488).
>   * Drop Provides sysv-rc.
>   * Install transit into /etc/init.d directly.
>
> Maybe you have to install sys-rc before installing openrc?

The version is 0.21-2.

Do you mean sysv-rc or sys-rc indeed?

Thanks a lot!